Crystal chemistry and selected physical properties of inorganic fluorides and oxide-fluorides
Résumé
importance in the development of many new technologies, and
are impacting various key points of modern life, that is, energy
production and storage, microelectronics and photonics,
catalysis, automotive, building, etc. Many research fields and
applications are indeed concerned by a better knowledge of the
relationships occurring between the structure of such
compounds and some pertinent physical properties. This
Review deals with the structural chemistry of solid-state
inorganic fluorides and oxide-fluorides, mostly transition
metal-based, including rare-earth elements. Such a Review has
not been published for a long time.1 Articles that recently
appeared on inorganic fluorinated compounds were mostly
focused on material science characteristics: morphology, surface
functionalization, nanostructuration of the materials and
applications, rather than on the description of characteristic
structural features.2−5 Detailed reviews focused on rare earthbased
inorganic fluorides have also appeared some years
ago...